Reparations Due Us
The lamestream media told you:
Southern legislatures are issuing apologies for historical events in the slave trade that took place between 150 and 400 years ago. Race activists Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others are now beginning to demand "reparations," cash payments to modern day blacks for the events of centuries before, playing off white guilt and "multicultural sensitivity" designed to bolster the modern welfare state and the various takings coalitions.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
"We're descended from the people who, at enormous cost in human lives and suffering, set the slaves free," says one white activist offended by racist reparations demands. "If reparations make any sense at all, blacks ought to pay us reparations," she said.
"Our rapid climb in socio-economic status, attainment of great position, opportunity and wealth, lives filled with conveniences even kings of the past didn't enjoy are all cause for celebration, not coerced payments," according to one black spokesperson. "While some blacks like to say Western civilization benefited from the labor of slaves, well, we did too, in every aspect of our modern lives. Look at the donut folks, not at the hole."
Nearly every society, and those that have grown to any significant size, have in their history a period involving slavery. Sad though it seems, it is not an aberration, it practically defines the human condition.
See the movie Amazing Grace for a historically accurate account of the heroic efforts to end the slave trade in England. The merchants who ran the trade have long since died, their wills settled, and their debts paid or expired.
Tags: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Amazing Grace, reparations, slavery, white guilt
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